I would think that if there were aliens in the vicinity that advanced we would have picked up EM transmissions from them by now. I believe there is life out there but one thing that troubles me is why havent we picked up their version of survivor or dancing with the stars. Or have we............

The SETI project has been looking for signals from nearby stars that exhibit some non-random content that could be, for example, TV transmissions. The reruns of "I love Lgrzbyliy", "I dream of Jaxcryghie", "Grysbypwn's Island", and "Leave it to Bzaqqrytir" collected to date are apparently hilarious enough that they are keeping them to themselves so far.

The SETI project has been looking for signals from nearby stars that exhibit some non-random content that could be, for example, TV transmissions.

Many modern radio transmission methods are purposely designed to appear as random noise. Unless a receiver knew the random sequence patterns in use they'd never know there was any intelligence to them.